The selections are provided by
Clyde Glandon, co-founder of the Fellowship of the Holy Name, who has chosen
Theophan the Recluse as a teacher of Christian Discipleship.

SundayI was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a
vision….Acts 11:4

St
Isacc the Syrian mentions a second degree of prayer which is given or descends
upon a man. He calls it ecstasy or ravishment, higher than prayer which man
makes himself. St Paul the Apostle was in this state when he was carried up
into Paradise. And the Holy Prophets also were in the same state of ecstasy
when the Spirit bore them away….Rightly may we say to those who labor: Work on,
for what you seek is of true value. Theophan
the Reclsue, The Art of Prayer

Monday And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell
upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning. And I remembered the word of
the Lord, how he had said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized
with the Holy Spirit.’ If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when
we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?

Acts 11: 15-17

The
denominational differences haven’t made any difference for years. The question
is how well do you know Jesus, or don’t you? The Holy Spirit and His baptism,
the Father, or don’t you?

Tuesday But a second time the voice answered from
heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call profane. Acts 11: 9

In
my prayer I imagined turning around and going into the kitchen, and I looked
and there at the head of the table was Himself, Jesus. I said, ‘Oh, so you’ve
decided to come in.’ And He said, ‘No, I live here.’ The union of the
opposites. It filled my whole being that He lives in my mess. The One who has conquered
sin and death and woundedness and all darkness: He lives in my darkness, He
lives in my place of opposites. He lives there. I have the Lord who has taken
the opposites and put them into oneness. And I follow Him and He lives with me.

WednesdayKings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all the rulers of
the world; young men and maidens, old and young together. Psalm 148: 11-12

The real
and true importance of globalization is the New Creation of Pentecost. “Identity politics” in Christianity and in
human society is transformed by Pentecost. “Diversity” is fulfilled in the
social realization of Pentecost

Clyde Glandon, “Biblical Truths,” The
Fellowship of the Holy Name Website

ThursdayI saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first haven and the
first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city,
the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God…Revelations
to John 21: 1-2

Pentecost
is larger than Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Unitarian Universalism, pre-modern
religions and the perennial philosophy. Because what we are talking about is
the New Heaven and the New Earth which is the ministry and vision of Jesus and
the Holy Spirit, which Christians and their churches are grafted into by being
grafted into the Body of Christ. It is God’s plan for the fullness of time, the
breadth and length and height and depth, to all generations, gathered up in
Christ, things in heaven and things on earth.

Clyde Glandon, The Divine Vision of Pentecost

FridayAnd the one who was seated on the throne said, ‘See, I am making
all things new.’

Revelations to John 21: 5

There
is a day of light and the divine wind of the Holy Spirit, breathing through and
refreshing souls who live in the day of the divine light. It passes through the
whole nature of the soul, the thoughts and the entire substance of the soul and
all the members of the body, as it recreates and refreshes them with a divine
and ineffable tranquility. Pseudo-Macarius,
The Fifty Spiritual Homilies, 2:4

SaturdayJust as I have loved you, you should also love one another. John 13:35

Finally
he becomes as a child, as he is commanded in the Gospel, and is made a fool for
Christ’s sake, that is, he loses the false wisdom of the world, and receives
from God a spiritual understanding… The love of God fills him with the gifts of
the Spirit, whose temple his is.

Theophan the Recluse, The Art of Prayer

Responsive Psalm:Psalm 67Let your ways be
known upon earth, your saving health among all nations.

Song:In Christ now meet both East
and West, in Him meet South and North, all Christly souls are one in Him,
throughout the whole wide earth.

Inviting the bell to sound:Listen, listen, this wonderful sound
calls us to the New Creation of Pentecost